. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. n FAMTLIJli OAKJiliN riOU'EnS: all the winter in the conservatory. S. BclIieU has bril- liant scarlet Howers ; S. Hpleiulcux Bnuniii also has scarlet flowers; 6'. llorc/fi has flowers of an exquisite tone of violet or satiny purple. These four rnay be considered the most useful of all the salvias in cultivation. A few other kinds deserve mention. 8. tricuhir is a sweet little gem^ witli white tube and mouthy and the ujoper lip purple, the lower lip scarlet—a bit of Nature's fancy work in painting that appears intended to mo
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. n FAMTLIJli OAKJiliN riOU'EnS: all the winter in the conservatory. S. BclIieU has bril- liant scarlet Howers ; S. Hpleiulcux Bnuniii also has scarlet flowers; 6'. llorc/fi has flowers of an exquisite tone of violet or satiny purple. These four rnay be considered the most useful of all the salvias in cultivation. A few other kinds deserve mention. 8. tricuhir is a sweet little gem^ witli white tube and mouthy and the ujoper lip purple, the lower lip scarlet—a bit of Nature's fancy work in painting that appears intended to mock the human jiainters of flowers. Thirty years ago we used to see in the gardens two curious salvias, named respectively iS'. hrurteata and 8. honnininii, which are remarkable because their conspicuous features are their coloured bracts^ the flowers of both being Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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